Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.
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Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
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I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
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You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.
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The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
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The message of 'Star Trek,' if there is one, seems to be that we should try to live up to the very best that we're capable of.
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I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
